Card-feeding attachment for packing machines



Mal-ch14, 1925. 1,530,985

. R. CRISSMAN ET AL.

CARD FEEDING ATTACHMENT FOR PACKING MACHINES Filed Aug. 13, 1921 3 Sheets-Sheet l 'mmmnminimuma I g INVENTORS BY i A?TORNEY March 24, 1925.

R. CRISSMAN ET AL CARD FEEDING ATTACHMENT FOR PACKING MACHINES 1921 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Aug. 13

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R. CRISSMANY ET AL CARD FEEDING ATTACHMENT FOR PACKING MACHINES 7 F l A g- 13, 1921 3 Sheets-Sheet 5 mum W! INVENTORS @844 .61 2mm m ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 24, 1925.

UNITED 1 STATES RAYMOND OmssM'AN AND OSCAR IQ? GODWIN, or RICHMOND, vinemrmnssienoas T0 BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY, LIMITED, or ew YORK, N. Y., A con PORA'BION OF GREAT BRITAIN, j

wa es PATENT OFFICEV..VWI

CARD-FEEDING ATT!IGII'I1VIIE1\T'.IT FOR PACKING MACHINES.

Application filed August-13, 1921. Serial No. 492,195

To (0Z7- w/wm it "may concern Belt known; that we, RAYMOND GRISS'MAN and OSCAR'L. GOD WlN,C1t1ZBI1S0f the United States, residing respectively, at Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia, and Richmond,

This-invention relates to an improvement in card feeding attachments for packing machines and consists in certain constructions and c-ombinationswhich will behereinafter fully described and then specifically set forth in the claims hereunto appended. In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification and in which like characters of reference indicate the same or like parts, Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a device constructed in accordance with the invention; Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the structure shown in Fig. 1; Fig; 3 is a detail plan View, upon an enlarged scale, of a portion of the device illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2; and Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the structure shown in Fig. 3, partly in section. i

In carrying the invention intoefi'ect, there isprovided acard magazine in whicha sup ply of cards isstored a card chute spaced from said magazine, and a suction card carrier interposed between said magazine and said chute and adapted to successively take cards from said magazine and to deliver them to said chute forultimate delivery by gravity to cups in the package cup magazme forming a part of the general machine organization in connection with which the attachment is used. These parts may be varied widely in construction within the scope of the claims the structure shown and described is but one of many possible concrete embodiments of the invention. The invention therefore is not to be restricted to the precise details of the structure shown and described.

Referring to the drawings, 5 indicatesthe bedof a packing machine 111 connectlon with packing machine proper.

the cards slide down the chute.

Between the standards 6 and-7 is shown broken away from but supported by the main frame of the packing machine proper. Package cups are fed to the top of thismagazineby means of a belt 10 running over a pulley 11 and deriving: its motion from a suitable source of motion in the Since the detail construction of the package cup magazine 9 lies outside the present invention, is well known, and a full description is not necessaryto an understanding of the present in vention, further description of this package cupmagazine is deemed unnecessary and is therefore omitted in the interest of brevity and clearness.

Mounted upon the attachment bed 8. is a card magazlne .conslstlng of atrough 12 provided near its delivery end with spring clips- 13,- the function of which is to retain the leading edge of a stack of cards in the magazine 1n proper posltlon for delivery.

The stack of cards in the magazine is held against theclips-13 by means of a sliding follower 14 which derives its movement successivelytake cards from the card mega zine and deliver them to the, chute. For the purpose of minimizing friction the chute 18 is provided with a pair of wires 19- soldered to its bottom. and upon which The suctioncarrier includes a casing 20 pivoted at 21 to a block.v 22 screwed fast to a" slide 23 free to: reciprocate in an enclosed slideway 24screwed to the bed 8 before referred to. The end of the slide 23 opposite the block 22 is connected by means of an adjustable link 25,iw-ith a lever 26 fulcrumed at 27;t0

the standard and carrying a bowl 28 operatin'g onthe peripheryof a cam. 29 carried by a shaftBO mountedin suitable journals 1 is being introduced. therein.

carried by the lever 39 is held in contact ries a sprocket 31 and over this sprocketv runs a chain 32 which also runs over a sprocket 33 fast on a shaft 34 which is one of the shafts of the packing machine proper in connection with which the attachment is used. One end of the shaft 34 is suitably journaled in a bracket 35 rising from the bed 5 before referred to and its other end is suitably journaled in a. bearing carried by the packing machine proper but not shown in the drawing. i l

The bowl 28 carried by the lever 26 1s held in contact with the cam 29 by means of a spring 36 one end of which is fast to the upper end of the lever 26 and the other end to the attachment bed 8. By this construction the slide 23 and the reciprocatmg movement of the suction carrier 20 isspring actuated and cam controlled.

The shaft 34 also carries a cam 37 and fulcrumed 38,' on the package cup magazine is a lever 39 the lower end of which is provided with a bowl 40 tracking on the periphery of the cam 37. The upper end of the lever 39 is provided with an overhanging clip 41 and with a bent finger 42. The function of the clip 41 is to sustain the leading edge of a package cup as it is fed to thecup magazine bythe belt 10 out of contact with the cup immediately below it in the magazine while a card is being introduced to th latter. And the function of the finger 42 is to hold the cup accurately in position in the magazine while a card The bowl 40 with the cam 37 by means of a spring 43 one end of which is fast to the lever 39 and the other to the frame of the cup magazine.

Concurrent with the reciprocating move ment of the suction carrier 20, the latter is given a rocking movement to facilitate delivery of a card to the chute 18. With this end in view, a cam arm 44 is screwed to the top of the suction carrier and rides on a bowl 45 carried by a fixed arm 46 screwed to the slideway 24 before referred to. The cam arm 44 is held against the bowl 45 by means of a spring 47 one end of which is fast to the cam arm 44 and'the other to the fixed arm 46. By the mechanism just described, the rocking movement of the suction carrier 20 is also spring actuated and cam con trolled.

The carrier 20 is connected by means of a flexible tube 48 with a suitable suction producing device not shown but of a well known character. For the purpose of controlling the suction in the carrier 20 there is provided avalve 49 to the upper end of which is secured an arm 50. This arm contacts with a fixed cam arm 51 screwed to the bed 8. It is held against this arm by means of a spring 52 one end of which is fast to the valve arm and the other to the carrier 20.

The Weight 15 holds the stack of cards in the card magazine in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 3, against the clips 13. The suction carrier is then moved into contact with the forward end of the stack, the valve at this time being open and the suction carrier lying in a horizontal position. The carrier is then given its peculiar movement which is the resultant of concurrent reciprocating and rocking movements drawing a single card away from the stack in the card magazine and tilting it in transit. Fig. 4 illustrates this movement in the direction of the arrow, a card marked 0 being in position on the carrier and held there by the suction. When, however, the retreating carrier has reached the position shown in Fig. 1, the rearward reciprocating and the rocking movement of the carrier are almost completed and the valve has almost out off the suction. Just beyond this point, the suction is completely out off and the card is delivered to the upper end of the chute 18 down which it slides into the package cup, held in position to receive it by the lever 39, the clip 41 and the finger 42. It will be readily understood that after a card is thus delivered to the chute, the carrier is given a reverse movementalso the resultant of its concur-- rent reciprocating and its rocking movements, and that before the forward end of the carrier again contacts withthe leading card of the stack in the card magazine, the valve has again fully opened.

WVhat is claimed is:

1. In a card feeding device,-the combination with. a magazine, of a support, means for alternately producing relative approaching and retreating right-line movements of said magazine and said support, a suction card carrier mounted on said support, means for rocking said carrier on said support, and suction controlling means, said movements being in horizontal planes.

2. In a card feeding device, the combination with a magazine, of a support, means for alternately producing relative approachmg and retreating right-line movements of said'magazine and said support, a suction card carrier mounted on said support, means for rocking said carrier on said support,

and suction controlling means, said magazine being provided with a device for advancing cards therein into the range ofaction of said carrier.

3. In a card feeding device, the combina-' tion with a magazine, of a support, means for alternately producing relative ap nfoaching and retreating right-line movements of saidmagazine and said support, a suction card carrier mounted on said support, means for rocking said carrier on said support, and suction controlling means, said support incarrier is journaled.

ment producing means including a link con-- nected with said support and with a springactuated and cam-controlled lever.

5. In a card feeding device, the combination with a magazine, of a support, means for alternately producingrelative approach ing and retreating right-line movements of said magazine and said? support, a suction card carrier mounted on said support, means for rocking said carrier on said support, and suction controlling means, said carrier having a valve closed by said controlling means during said retreating movement.

6. In a card feeding device, the combination with a magazine, of a support, means for alternately producing relative approaching and retreating right-line movements of said magazine and said support, a suction card carrier mounted on said support, means for rocking said carrier on said support, and suction controlling means, said carrier having a valve openedby said controlling means during said approaching movement.

7. In a card feeding device, the combination with a magazine, of a support, means for alternately producing relative approaching and retreating right-line movements of said magazine and said support, a suction card carrier mounted on said support, means for rocking said carrier on said support, and suction controlling means, said carrier rocking means being spring-actuated and camcontrolled.

8; In a card feeding device, the combina tion with a magazine, of a support, means for alternately producing relative approaching and retreating right-line movements of said magazine and said support, a suction and carrier mounted on said support, means for rocking said carrier on said support, and suction controlling means, said carrier rocking means including an, arm fixedto said carrier, and devices for actuating said arm during said movements.

9. In a card feeding device, the combination with a magazine. of a support, means for alternately producing relative approaching and retreating right-line movements of said magazine and said support, a suction card carrier mounted on said support, means for rocking said carrier on said support, and suction controlling means, said carrier rockingmeans including an arm fixed to said carrier, a spring actuating said arm during said approaching movement, and a stationary cam actuating said arm durin said re treating movement.

10.-In a card feeding device, the com bination with a magazine, of a support, means for alternately producing relative approaching and retreating right-line move ments of said magazine and said support, a suction card carrier mounted on said support, means for rocking said carrier on said support, and suction controllingmeans, said controlling means being spring-actuated and cam-controlled.

11. In a card feeding device,the'coinbination witlra magazine, of a support, means for alternately producing relative approaclr ingand'r'etreating right'line movements of I said. magazine and said support, a suction: card carriermounte'd on: said support,-means for rocking said carrier on said support, and suction controlling means, said controlling means including a valve in said carrier and a spring-actuated and cam-controlled arm fast thereto.

12. In a card feeding device, the combination with a magazine, of a support,

means for alternately producing relative aproachin and retreatin' ri 'ht line movements of said magazine and said support,

a suction card carrier mounted on said support, means for rocking said carrier on said support, suction controlling means, and card conducting means receiving cards from said carrier.

13. In a card feeding device, the combina-v 1 tion with a magazine, of a support, means for alternately producing relative approaching and retreating right-line movements of said magazine and said support, a suction card carrier mounted on said support, means for rocking said carrier on said support, suction controlling means, and a chute receiving cards from said carrier.

14. Ina card feed device, the combination with a card magazine, of a card carrier, an arm secured to said carrier and having an offset section, means for alternately producing approaching and retreating move ments of said carrier toward and away from said magazine, and a cam bowl operative in fixed position and engaging said arm adja-cent its offset to tilt said carrier in one direction during its retreating movement;

15. In a card feed device, the combination with a card magazine, of a card carrier, an arm secured to said carrier and having an offset section, means for alternately producing approaching and retreating movements of said carrier toward and away from said magazine, a cam bowl operative in fixed position and engaging said arm adjacent its offset to tilt said carrier in one direction during its retreating movement, and a spring engaging said arm and acting to tilt said carrier in the opposite direction during its approaching movement.

,16. In a card feed device, the combination with a card magazine, of a sl deway spaced from said magazine but extending in i the same general direction, a slide mountedin said slideway, means for reciprocating said slide, a card carrier pivotally mounted on said slide, an arm secured to said carrier and having an offset section,- an arm secured to and rising from said slidevvay, acam bowl mounted in said arm and engaging the offset section of the carrier arm, and a spring connecting the free end of the carrier arm With said slideway.

17. In a card feed device, the combination with a card magazine, of a slideway spaced from said magazine but extending in the same general direction alslide mounted in said slideway, means for reciprocating said slide, a suction card carrier pivotally mounted OlLSLld "slide, a Valve wltlnn said carrier, an arm carried by said valve, a fixed offset section of said tilting arm, and aspring holding said tilting arm and cam bowl in engagement.

In testimony whereof, we have signed our names to this specification.

' RAYMOND CRISSMAN.

OSCAR L. GODVVIN. 

